Today, Black people comprise 40% of Harlem's population, down from a high of 65% since 1995 due in large part to tenant displacement by predatory landlords. There are similar declines in Harlem's percentage of Hispanics residents.

Thomas Lopez-Pierre does NOT accept campaign contributions from landlords.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: State law prohibits making a contribution in someone else’s name, reimbursing someone for a contribution made in your name, being reimbursed for a contribution made in your name, or claiming to have made a contribution when a loan is made.

Paid For By The Committee To Elect Thomas Lopez-Pierre

Thomas Lopez-Pierre To Distribute 100,000 Voter Registration Forms in the 7th Council District!

The goal of the voter education campaign is to empower tenants to defeat Mark Levine (in 2017) and the landlords that helped financed his election to the NYC City Council!

Thomas Lopez-Pierre is a 47 year old man of Puerto Rican, Dominican and Haitian descent.

Thomas Lopez-Pierre: a sinner, saved by God's grace (born addicted to drugs, raised in foster care and group homes) is a man of the people, fighting for economic justice.

Thomas Lopez-Pierre's campaign for NYC City Council is rooted in progressive policies that unite people from diverse communities in Upper Manhattan.

The 7th Council District of the New York City Council is 65% Black and Hispanic!

The 7th Council District runs from 96th Streets on the Upper Westside through West Harlem and Washington Heights up to 165th Street (map of 7th Council District).

Today, Black people comprise 40% of Harlem's population, down from a high of 65% since 1995 due in large part to tenant displacement by predatory landlords. There are similar declines in Harlem's percentage of Hispanics residents.

The Black and Hispanic community foolishly divided their votes among 8 minority candidates.

In 2013, Mark Levine was elected with about 7,000 votes of which about 5,000 votes came from the high income community of the Upper Westside and the 8 minority candidates received about 11,000 votes from the working class communities of Harlem and Washington Heights out of a total vote count of about 18,000.

Lawyers representing Black tenants living in Brooklyn Slumlord Yeshaya Wasserman’s two large muliti-family complexes in East Flatbush, Brooklyn; filed a federal lawsuit in 2014, claiming that Wasserman forced out Black tenants in favor of White newcomers.

Once Brooklyn Slumlord Yeshaya Wasserman got Black tenants out of their apartments, Wasserman would increase rents from $600 per month to 2,501 per month.